Tatting-hook



M.- cfMousE-B. TATTIN'G HOOK. -APPLJxcATmu man Dic. 6,-1917.

1553,'7959230. Y' Patented May 31,1921.-

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TATTING-HOOK.

Application led December 6, 1917. Serial No. 205,817.

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Beit known that I, MINNiE C. MOUSER, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Diego, in thepounty of San Diego and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tatting-I-Iooks, of which the following' is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in tatting hooks and it is the dominant object of the invention to provide a device for enabling the user of the same to readily engage and temporarily hold the thread during a tatting operation, thereby materially expediting the work.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

Other and vfurther improvements and novel details in the construction of the device will be appreciated from the description to follow, which, for a clear understanding of the invention should be considered in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, and wherein the preferred embodiment of the invention is shown for the purpose of illus-V tration.

In the drawings Figure l is a perspective of the improved hook, and,

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the same.

Similar characters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

Referring now more particularly Vto the drawings, l represents a taperedy cap or thimble, the upper end of the same, obviously, being closed and having a laterally extending hook 2 secured thereto by suitable Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented May 31, 1921.

means, the stem o-f the hook being elongated, for a purpose which will be hereinafter-ap.- parent. It is to. be also noted, that the hooked outer end of the member 2 is point# ed as at 3, thereby permitting the same to be readily engaged or inserted between stitches during thetatting operation.

When using the improved tatting hook, the cap or thimble would in most cases be arranged on the little finger of the users right hand, as the hook is employed as a means of drawing the thread through the picots to connect with the shuttle in tatting,

thereby saving the necessity of laying down l the shuttle or disarranging the work in any way. The pointed portion 3 can also be used for removing eXtra stitches often made by mistake in tatting, which can be easily and quickly removed without laying downv with a barb having a vrearwardly directed point and which merges into the pointed end yof the stem.

In testimony whereof, I afl-1X my signature hereto.

MINNE C. MOUSER, 

